Whipping Creek

… rises in SW Dare County and flows SW into Long Shoal River. Appears as Aquascog River on the Comberford map, 1657, and under its present name on the Collet map, 1770. Aquascogoc was an Algonquian Indian village near the head of the Pungo River estuary; the name is believed to have meant "where a place for disembarking exists."